Sacked Ryanair pilot seeking legal advice

The Ryanair pilot sacked just days after he took part in a Channel 4 programme criticising the airline is to “seek legal advice on his options”.

In a memo issued on Wednesday by director of flight and ground operations, David O’Brien, all Ryanair pilots were informed that Captain John Goss had been “dismissed with immediate effect from Ryanair” for “gross misconduct”.

It also stated that the airline had instructed its lawyers “to issue legal proceedings against Capt Goss for his malicious, defamatory and contrived statements in the C4 Dispatches programme which deliberately gave the impression that a long-standing Ryanair pilot claims that there are safety issues in Ryanair, when there are not”.